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Good night, youngsters." The boys trudged on, and the tramp retraced his steps. When he reached the Hacketts' house, he paused at the gate. The children, a boy of eight and a girl of six, looked at him curiously from the piazza. "Are you Mr. Hackett's little boy and girl?" he asked. The girl stepped back to the hall door and stood there. The boy looked up at the tramp and answered, "Yes, sir."
"As the time went by, however, and I heard nothing, my fears began to assuage, and my belief in my own intuitive good judgment to return. Maybe, I had done a good thing for Josiah and Hannah, and they were blessing me. Three years passed peacefully away, and I was beginning to forget the existence of the Hacketts. "Then he came again.
She will be much better here than waiting at Silverton, though the Hacketts are very kind to her. 'Yes, it will be better to be independent. But all this is very unfortunate. However, Victoria will see for herself what the children are. She has asked me to take a drive with her to-morrow if it is not too cold. 'Oh yes, she is not going to make an estrangement. You need not fear that, Ada.
When Philip Jones bought the property that had belonged to the widow O'Dwyer for Ballintubber had for the last hundred years been the property of the O'Dwyers and Morony, which, had been an outlying town-land belonging to the Hacketts for the last two centuries, he had at first been looked down upon as a new comer. But all that had passed by, and Mr.
In my leisure moments I dirtied my clothes so that they might be washed at the laundry. "As the result of my investigations I discovered that, so far as the two businesses themselves were concerned, there was not a pin to choose between them. It became merely a question of which particular trade would best suit the Hacketts. "I reflected. The keeper of a bar was exposed to much temptation.
"Oh, I never heard of him. I guess he died long ago." "And Tommy Hackett's father, who's he?" "He's the boss down at the freight station. Agent, I think they call him." "Where does this Mrs. Coates live?" "She lives with the Hacketts. Would you like to see the house? Me and Dick has to go past it on the way home. We'll show you." "Yes, I would like to see the house."
They wired the girl in Atlanta, and Flora wasn't there, and the Hacketts were nearly crazy. But as luck would have it, Mr. Hackett ran into a friend of theirs on Broadway, and this friend began to tease Mr. Hackett about his daughter's being a chorus girl!" "A chorus girl!" Dundee echoed, taking care not to show his disappointment.
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